pieces of me1
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I often wonder who I amwhy God made me this way.Why my skin turns golden bronzeWhen I go outside to play.Why my hair is soft in places and Kinky here and there,And where I get my cheerful attitude,It seems to come from nowhere.
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I think I have an ideaA place I’ve never explored.
A place from deep insideA place we all adore.
A place where we find peace and love, a place where we find hope. I think it’s time to cross that bridge
And uncover my Puerto Rican Heritage!
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Mother and Daughter.Far left unknownFar right, Eddie Porrata. Eddie is the mother of Pilar Porrata, My mother’s (Pilar Garcia) Great Grandmother.
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PILAR LIVED IN PUERTO RICO. SHE WAS A HAPPY LOVING PERSON WHO LOVED MUSIC AND PEOPLE.
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MONSERATE SICARDO AND PILAR PORRATAIN PUERTO RICO – 1940. MY MOM,PILAR GARCIA’S, GRANDPARENTS
MONSERATE AND PILAR STANDING WITH THEIR CHILD RAMONITA
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Monserate Sicardo sitting with his daughters Ramonita and Lydia. Lydia is Monserate’s daughter from a previous marriage where her mother died. Monserate died when Ramonita was 18 years old. Pilar takes care of both girls. The other people there are Ida and a family friend. Monserate later died from stomach cancer
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Pilar Porrata and Ricardo Niveo marries 1981.
Ricardo is the grandfather Pilar, my mother, grew up knowing.
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Pilar ( Maria es del Pilar Garcia was her given name) visited her grandmother, Pilar Porrata, in Puerto Rico. Pilar Porrata Sicardo lived to be 82 years old.
She later died of phenomena
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I know you thought the story ended, but now it’s just beginning. I must introduce you to a woman who was loved by many!
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RAMONITA TAKING A PHOTO (LEFT).
RAMONITA POSING WHEN MOVING TO NEW YORK (RIGHT).
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SHE HAD STYLE, SHE HAD CLASS…
RAMONITA SITTING WITH HER FRIEND.
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HERIBERTO GARCIA ROSARIO. BORN, MAYO, 20TH , 1919 IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.
PILAR, AGE 3, AT THE PARK WITH HER DAD
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ROCKEFELLER CENTER DURING EASTER
AT GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE. PILAR IS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD.
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Pilar with her kids, Yachannah, Yirayah, Ta’avdiah,
Ner’Emanyah, Shadiyah and Ayishia at the July 24th Family reunion.
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Zyair, Ya’bree, Emanyae, Aliyanna, Avye, Markeis, Rahleik, Akeyla
Nana/ Pilar with her Grandbabies on Family Vacation in Gatlinburg, TN
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